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Six Four by Hideo Yokoyama
5.0

This is a Japanese police procedural that focuses mostly on interdepartmental politics and the police force's relationship with the press while remembering a cold case. Also, it is very long.

At that description, you could be forgiven for thinking you'd never want to read the book. But. What if it was the absolute apex, the most perfect version possible of a Japanese police procedure that focuses on interdepartmental politics, media relations, with a dash of cold case investigation? Like, the best one that could ever exist, and also a book that you'll read until 3am, rolling forward through nimble prose, finding yourself physically present with the main character? That's what this is.

Six Four. Recommended. Those who know, know.